Investigation of the effects of school principals' leadership styles on physical education teachers' organizational citizeship behaviors and resilience

This research was carried out to examine the relationship between school principals' leadership styles and physical education and sports teachers' organizational citizenship behaviors and resilience. In this context, in this quantitative study, the relational survey model, which is consistent with the main purpose of the study, was used. The study group of the research consists of 177 physical education and sports teachers, 33 women and 144 men. Convenience sampling method, one of the non-probabilistic sampling approaches, was used in the selection of the research group. Questionnaire form was used as data collection tool and this form consists of four parts. In the first part of the questionnaire, there is the "Personal Information Form", the second part includes the "School Principals Leadership Styles Scale", the third part includes the "Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale", and the fourth part includes the "Short Psychological Resilience Scale". The descriptive statistics of the raw data obtained through this form were first calculated by considering the data type. Then, the reliability of the dimensions of the scales related to the data obtained were investigated, and the difference and correlation tests were used in statistical evaluations. In this direction; No significant difference was found within the scope of gender variable. However, according to the marital status variable, there were significant differences in favor of the married participants in the sub-dimensions of organizational commitment and autonomy and worthiness. There are negative and low-level significant relationships between the variable of professional service time and the transformational leadership sub-dimension, and positive and low-level significant relationships between the liberating leadership sub-dimension. It was observed that there was a positive and moderately significant relationship between the organizational citizenship behaviors of the participants and their psychological resilience. It was found that there was a positive and moderately significant relationship between the transformational leadership perceptions of the participants and their organizational citizenship behaviors. It has been determined that there is a negative and low-level significant relationship between the participants' liberating leadership perceptions and their organizational citizenship behaviors. It was found that there was a negative and low-level significant relationship between the participants' perceptions of continuity leadership and their organizational citizenship behaviors. In addition, it was determined that there was a negative and low-level significant relationship between the participants' perceptions of continuity leadership and their psychological resilience. Therefore, it can be concluded that organizational citizenship increases as transformational leadership behaviors increase, organizational citizenship decreases as liberating leadership behaviors increase, and organizational citizenship and psychological resilience decreases as sustainable leadership behaviors increase. Keywords: Physical education and sports teacher, Leadership, Organizational citizenship, Resilience.